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I'm a well-known mainframe performance guy, with almost 30 years of experience helping customers manage systems. I also dabble in lots of other technology. I've sought to widen the Performance role, incorporating aspects of infrastructural architecture.
I'm a world-famous podcaster and screencaster (albeit VERY thinly spread). :-)

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The same Kevin Keller I mentioned in this blog post is running a one day pilot of a "Web 2.0 and System z" workshop on July 8th, in IBM Böblingen. It's designed for customers, though some of the audience will undoubtedly be IBMers. I've looked at the agenda and, while I'm on it, it's a great agenda. :-) Actually it has the highly-acclaimed Luis Suarez on the agenda as well. (I'm looking... [More]

Once in a while there comes along a simple coding enhancement that really kicks the story forwards.
This post is about just such a simple thing, as I think customer Performance people would benefit from it. Consider the following perfectly ordinary graph heading (and ignore the grottiness of the font if you can). I'd like to draw your attention to the portion if it in the brown box.
That's the... [More]